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Towards an Environmental Political Economy
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Towards an Environmental Political Economy Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily expanding economy,' but a zero-growth economy, a stable economy. Economic growth is not only unnecessary but ruinous. We must set ourselves the aim not of increasing national resources, but merely of conserving them. -Alesksandr Solzhenitsyn (21-22) German zoologist Ernst Haeckel coined the word 'ecology' in 1866 by combining the ancient Greek words ???? ('oikos') and ????? ('logos'). 'Oikos' means "earthly home" or "dwelling place (Liddell and Scott, 1204), and 'logos' means "reason" (ibid., 1057-59), so ecology means, roughly, the scientific study of the earthly dwelling-place-that is, the biosphere. 'Economics' shares the same root as ecology ('oikos'), and means, roughly, "management of the home." Following this thread, we might well conclude that in order to mange our earthly home well, we must know...
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